Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quinn took on the job as if he were born to it. He moved his family into the Victorian, open-porched-Governor's mansion on Washington Place. In his inaugural address, he told Hawaiians: "The realization that I assume this office not by the will of the people' prompts me to vow that I shall meet all the people of our islands and shall in fact be their Governor." In his 23 months in the office, Bill Quinn has filled 560 speaking engagements, from one end of the archipelago to the other. When there were no speaking dates...
...constructed with the simplicity that is the essence of true genius. They were part fraud and part finely honed athletic skill. Example: When he dived manacled and chained into an icy river, he swam free tense moments later, because the chains were phony and the locks were rigged to open at his touch. But he had also spent months practicing submersion in a bathtub cooled by cakes...
...impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name of art is one of the worst threats that artists face...
...cosmic terms, humans may be uncomfortably like those pale, soft-bodied insects that live under stones and dare not venture into the open. For it is becoming increasingly apparent that man is not going to be able to venture beyond the shelter of the earth's protecting atmosphere unless he develops massive, mechanical shells to protect his vulnerable body from the searing hazards of outer space...
...climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could not battle model-for-model against the Big Three, he put all his mechanical skill into a single car -the compact, chrome-clean, low-priced (from $1,925) Lark. The results: S.P. has produced 126,000 Lark '59s (v. 50,000 Studebakers...